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Books on art practice, technique, and history, as well as books about individual artists and art movements.
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E-Books on Art

Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers, 2nd Edition by David Hornung
Publication Date: 2012

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Studio Ceramics: Advanced Techniques by Anderson Turner
Publication Date: 2012

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Acrylic Fusion: Experimenting with Alternative Methods for Painting, Collage, and Mixed Media by Dan Tranberg
Publication Date: 2012

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Design/Paper: A Seductive Collection of Alluring Paper Graphics by Public School
Publication Date: 2012

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Makers: A History of American Studio Craft by Janet Koplos and Bruce Metcalf
Publication Date: 2010

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond by Peter Selz and Susan Landauer
Publication Date: 2006

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Exploring Site-Specific Art: Issues of Space and Internationalism by Judith Rugg
Publication Date: 2010

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective by Stephanie Bower
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2016
Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine by William Parry
Publication Date: 2011

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card
Design: a Very Short Introduction by John Heskett
Publication Date: 2005

Online E-Book – available to read from anywhere with your CCSF Student ID card

New Art Books at CCSF Libraries

Lygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms by Iria Candela
Publication Date: 2017
Jimmie Durham: AT the Center of the World by Anne Ellegood
Publication Date: 2017
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power by edited by Mark Godfrey and Zoe Whitley
Publication Date: 2017
Co-Art: Artists on Creative Collaboration by Ellen Mara De Wachter
Publication Date: 2017
Chromaphilia: The Story of Color in Art by Stella Paul
Publication Date: 2017
The Cleaner: Marina Abramovic
Publication Date: 2017
Women of Abstract Expressionism by Joan Marter
Call Number: ND212.5.A25 W66 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art by Diana Freundl and Carol Yinghua Lu (Editors)
Publication Date: 2015

Books on Art at Ft. Mason

Robert Rauschenberg: Cardboards and Related Pieces by Yve-Alain Bois
Publication Date: 2007
The Blue Rider - A Dance in Colour: Watercolours, Drawings and Prints from the Lenbachhaus Munich by Helmut Friedel and Annegret Hoberg
Publication Date: 2010
Wolf Kahn Pastels by Wolf Kahn
Publication Date: 2000
The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art by Martha Buskirk
Publication Date: 2005
Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980 by Jean Robertson and Craig McDaniel
Publication Date: 2013

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